metate
mealing stone

Once nixtamalized, maize was typically ground up on a metate and prepared in a number of ways.

The design was similar to that of a metate, which was used to grind grain.

Yet as they ground their corn with mano and metate, what were they thinking?

The mano was used to grind the grain or seed on the metate.

A unique feature of ceremonial metate is the lack of human figures.

The production of metate is additionally featured on many of these figurines.

There is a very beautiful metate in perfect condition, many fragments of ceramics and lytic tools.

Blue corn, a staple grain of the Hopi, is first reduced to a fine powder on a metate.

Here the metate plays an important role in the processing of maize, the staple crop of the culture.

Joe chanted in a singsong, off key voice: "For making tortillas you'll use a metate."

The majority of these tools were for grinding (mano) or grindstones themselves (metate).

He grinds them by hand in a metate, a mortarlike vessel like the one the Mayans used.

Once the corn has softened, it is washed and then ground, three times, with a mano and metate.

The highest elevation inside the municipality is the Cerro el Metate.

The metate's basic mechanical purpose is a platform on which (primarily) maize is ground into flour.

A mano (Spanish for hand) is a ground stone tool used with a metate to process or grind food by hand.

It consists of a flattened and spiced ground beef patty made using a metate (grinding stone).

Another type of metate, called a grinding slab, may also be found among boulder or exposed bedrock outcroppings.

Geronimo sat before a rude brush shelter, smoking, while Sons-ee-ah-ray ground maize in a metate.

Stirling was the archaeologist who recovered fragments of the Barriles statues and the large metate.

They were parched with hot coals, then ground on a metate; the resulting food had a peanut butter-like consistency.

The pigments are ground into a powder using a metate grinding stone, then mixed with clay to make a milky fluid paint.

The three most popular iconographic elements of ceremonial metate seem to be saurian, bird, and jaguar creatures.

The "flying panel" metate is believed to be the precursor to free standing sculptural figures more common later in the Atlantic watershed region.

Chili peppers are roasted, soaked in hot water and ground on a metate with a little garlic, cloves and black pepper.

The mealing stone, or matate, can be seen at Phantom Ranch, half a mile on along the trail.

A metate (or mealing stone) is a mortar, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds.

Some ancient mealing stones of this prehistoric tribe were found near Saticoy in 1932 and traced back to about 3000 B.C.

Oh, Mealing Stone, French Chalk, Cottonball Borax.

The pre-Columbian artifacts, which Morton said were "a treasure of great historical significance for Panama," include ancient three-legged tables known as "mutates," or mealing stones, used for grinding maize kernels.

I knew, of course, that Smithstone Clay had become edible," she said, "but I had no idea that one could now eat Dogtooth Rock or Ganister or Mealing Stone.